瀧

瀧 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水卜月心 (EYBP), four-corner 3111₁, composition ⿰氵龍)

• 𡔆, 𮧁

• 滝 (Japanese shinjitai)
• 泷 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 660, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1070, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1784, character 17
• Unihan data for U+7027

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rroːŋ, *sroːŋ, *roːŋ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 龍 (OC *b·roŋ, *mroːŋ).

瀧

1. appearance of raining
2. wet; soaked

瀧

1. (of flow of water) rapid

Resemblance to Vietnamese sông – which is from Proto-Vietic *k-roːŋ – is coincidental. Because:

• In the early 11th century CE 瀧 (MC sraewng) (Baxter) already possessed retroflex fricative initial (as indicated by pronunciation 所江切 in Guangyun [1007 - 1008 CE]); meanwhile,
• Nôm transcriptions in the 12th-century Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) demonstrate that Old Vietnamese then still retained clusters */Cr-/, which would not become a retroflex fricative ancestral to Modern Vietnamese ‹s-› /ʂ ~ s/ until much later.

瀧

1. (～水) a river in Guangdong

   Synonym: 羅定江 / 罗定江

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 滝)

1. Kyūjitai form of 滝 (“waterfall; rapids”)
2. Used in personal names.

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC laewng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (lóng):

• Go-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)^{←らう (rau, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC luwng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (lóng):

• Go-on: ろう (rō)
• Kan-on: ろう (rō)

From Middle Chinese 瀧 (MC sraewng); compare Mandarin 瀧 / 泷 (shuāng):

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: たき (taki, 瀧)

瀧 (eum 룡 (ryong), word-initial (South Korea) 용 (yong))

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瀧: Hán Việt readings: lung^[1]
瀧: Nôm readings: sông^{[2][3][4][1][5][6]}, rông^[4][1][5][6], lùng^[2], rồng^[4], lung^[1]

1. chữ Nôm form of sông (“river”)